The S&P 500 and Dow Jones indexes fell more than 3% on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.
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The 500 richest people in the world lost a total of 139,000 million of dollars this Monday due to the fall of the stock markets, amid fears that the outbreak of the coronavirus will harm the global economy.
It is the biggest loss of wealth of the group, since the Bloomberg agency introduced the index in October 2016. The indices S&P 500 Y Dow jones each collapsed more than 3%, its worst fall in more than two years.
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The greatest losses were recorded Bernard Arnault, president and director of the LVMH conglomerate, and the founder and executive director of the American company Amazon, Jeff Bezos. Each lost more than 4.8 billion dollars.
The fortune of the Spanish Amancio Ortega, owner of the Inditex group (Massimo Dutti, Zara) decreased by 4,000 million dollars, and that of Mark Zuckerberg, executive director of Facebook, at 3,480 million.
Covid-19, which originated in China last December, has claimed the lives of more than 2,700 people of the 80,289 infected, mainly in China, and there are rapid growth outbreaks in South Korea, Italy and Iran.
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